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Recent security disclosures have put the Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center under scrutiny. Security researchers have identified three remote code execution vulnerabilities, including one rated Critical (CVSS 9.3). According to Veeam’s security advisory, versions 9.1 and earlier in the 9.x product line are affected. Veeam will not provide a separate security fix for these versions.

Why does the guest Wi-Fi in a busy store stop handing out addresses by mid-morning when the DHCP server reports no faults at all? We see this pattern often. It usually traces back to one number in the scope settings, left at its default since go-live. That number is the lease time. Set it too long and phones that left hours ago still hold their addresses, leaving new visitors with nothing.

How many of your servers still match their approved build configuration? Most teams would have to log in and look, because drift happens one reasonable change at a time: a firewall exception for a vendor's remote support, a local admin account someone creates during an outage, a patch cycle that slips when the change window runs out. Each change has a ticket and a reason, so nobody thinks of it as risk. Attackers do.

Explore how AI coding assistant approvals can create security risks, and learn why content-bound trust, signed configurations, and approval reviews matter. This is part two in a series. What you actually bind to when you click “yes” and why the binding outlives the thing you trusted.

Our internal AI applications repeatedly send the same system instructions, tool definitions, and conversation history to large language models (LLMs). Prompt caching lets models reuse this data from previously processed input, reducing the cost of handling repeated content. But while investigating our LLM costs, we found applications that weren’t benefiting from caching, even when it appeared to be enabled.

I have been in networking for a long time, and I still consider packets to be a great tool for troubleshooting. When I need to understand what actually happened between two systems, the packets are often the best evidence available.